Employment
Finding a job
There are a number of ways you can find a teaching position:
Support in teaching
The Māori Immersion Teacher Allowance (MITA) is a salary allowance (equivalent to one salary unit p.a.) for teachers who use te reo Māori as the language of communication and instruction. To qualify teachers must:
- be employed in a permanent full-time position or full-time relieving position; and
- teach immersion programmes at Levels 1 (81%-100%), 2 (51% - 80%), or 3 (31% - 50%); and
- use te reo Māori in approved teaching programmes to deliver the national curriculum for at least 31% of their total teaching time.
Full-time unqualified teachers who meet this criteria are entitled to an annual allowance of $1500.
Application forms are available on the Ministry of Education website.
Loan Support Scheme
The aim of the Loan Support Scheme is to retain NZ qualified teachers of current target subjects in state or state-integrated schools (years 9 to 13) for at least the first four years after they have qualified as a teacher.
From 2005, Māori Medium teachers - who teach in a total immersion setting: kura kaupapa Māori; wharekura; or total immersion classes in a mainstream school - are eligible to receive a taxable payment of $2,500 in each of their second, third and fourth years of teaching. Download the Māori Medium Loan Support form below for further details.
Secondary teachers of maths, te reo Māori, technology, and physics now receive a taxable payment of $2,500 in each of their second, third and fourth years of teaching as an incentive to remain in teaching. Download the Secondary Subject Loan Support form below for further details.
Teachers in hard-to-staff schools who teach all the current target subjects - biology, chemistry, English, maths, physics, technology and te reo Māori at the secondary level, will also be eligible to apply.
Having a student loan will not be a condition of payment but where a teacher has a student loan, the payment will be used to reduce the teacher’s student loan.
Recipients of the Secondary Subject Trainee Allowances are eligible for this scheme, as are some Secondary Subject Scholarship recipients.
Salaries
Collective agreements for secondary, primary and kindergarten teachers can be viewed on the Ministry of Education’s website or follow the direct link in the table below.
For other early childhood services, pay varies greatly and salaries are agreed in other types of collective agreements or by individual contracts.
More detailed information on some, but not all, early childhood collectives can be found on NZEI’s website.